Our Aims

• To attain a greater margin of self-governance for the various Provinces in terms of the Constitutional Provisions allowed for in Schedule 4 & 5 as provided for all the Nine (9) Provinces in the National Constitution;
• To consider the existing Provincial Constitution of the Western Cape within the framework of the National Constitution and to align, promote, strengthen and expand the above provisions of the Western Cape Constitution in the context of Clause 235 of the National Constitution;
• To develop and build adequate capital and human capacity in the Western Cape Province in order to deliver more and better services to its residents than what the Central Government in Pretoria is currently able to deliver;
• To  design and drive an international campaign to promote these goals and to align them with International Law and protocols to which our National Constitution is already bound and subject to;
• To be pro-active and positive in such a campaign and to mobilise international stakeholders and role-players to support such a campaign;
• To align closely with scientific institutions such as the IRR, the Institute for Security Studies, HSRC, University Research Bodies, etc in order to obtain scientifically based data from them on which our campaign’s  motivations for both the national and international campaigns would be based upon;
• To install and manage a national and international promotional campaign including the printed and social media, lobbyists, pressure groups, etc in order to promote such goals;
• To drive a campaign to inform the world of the inherent capacity of the people of the Western Cape Province to manage their own affairs, like the various cantons in Switzerland, better than a distant and far-off national government;
• To promote the concept of and to motivate for a larger portion of capital transfers from the National/Central Fiscus to the Western Cape Provincial Fiscus to be able to execute the developmental and service delivery functions via the devolution – and not the delegation – of powers as referred to in clauses above;
• To be able to manage the influx of people into the Western Cape via effective and professional urban planning functions – which resides at provincial and local spheres of government – better and to also implement the district development model more effectively;
• Such a model would also be informing and guiding the Provincial Government on the capacity and ability of the Western Cape Province to absorb more people into the provincial economy;
• To be able to identify and to also profile the type/s of human skills that would/could be absorbed into the provincial economy, almost like the permanent residency prerequisites of a state like Mauritius;
• To keep such a campaign neutral and to promote it on the basis of the promotion of natural, linguistic and cultural cohesion in the Western Cape Province but fundamentally on the basis of shared constitutional principles and economic values;
• The campaign would therefore be promoting liberal political values in an open Western Cape Society with equal opportunities and access for everyone into such an open and free market economy;
• The envisaged society should however entertain a fair and sound social conscience…such as the South Korean model…to ensure a free market economy but with critical social interventions when required in order to address some real societal and strategic issues which might/could destabilise the social harmony in the envisaged Constitutional Model of the Western Cape.

LEGAL FACTS:
Legally Independence of the Cape Region is permissible and justifiable, according to both International Law and The South African Constitution.
“All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of these rights, they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”
“All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.”

“The States Parties to the present Covenant, including those having responsibility for the administration of Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories, shall promote the realization of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations”

– Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, signed by the South African Government on 3 October 1993 and ratified on 10 December 1998.

Thus, Independence is an obligation that is owned to the international community and is a peremptory norm of international law.

Closer to home, the right to self-determination is guaranteed in section 235 of The South African Constitution, reading as follows:

“The right of the South African people as a whole to self-determination, as manifested in this Constitution, does not preclude, within the framework of this right, recognition of the notion of the right to self-determination or any community, sharing a common culture and language heritage, within a territorial entity in the Republic or any other way, determined by national legislation”.

Furthermore, section 235 of the Constitution is to be interpreted in accordance with international law as per section 233 of the constitution, which reads as follows:

“When interpreting any legislation, every court must prefer any reasonable interpretation of the legislation that is consistent with international law, over any alternative interpretation that is inconsistent with international law”

Reasonable interpretation must be upheld.

UNESCO has provided a widely accepted definition of “peoples” stating the following: